Leaked internal documents have exposed the activities of a Russian state-backed legal defence foundation that European intelligence agencies and analysts say is in fact a Kremlin influence operation active in 48 countries across Europe and around the world.
Internal documents from the Fund for Support and Protection of the Rights of Compatriots Living Abroad (Pravfond) indicate that the foundation finances propaganda websites targeted at Europeans, helped pay for the legal defence of the convicted arms trafficker Viktor Bout and the assassin Vadim Krasikov, and has employed a number of former intelligence officers as the directors of its operations in European countries.
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Portuguese NATO documents caught for sale on the darkweb
The extent of the damage is still being investigated by the National Security Office, but suspicions of the breach of security that facilitated the exfiltration of secret NATO documents fall on EMGFA, secret military and MDN computers.